OpenAI is hiring a Data Center Security Technical Lead to define and execute the cyber defense strategy securing our rapidly expanding global data center operations. You will own the complete security lifecycle for ambitious infrastructure programs, ensuring they meet the highest standards of protection.
What You'll Do
- Spearhead the overall security vision, architecture, execution, and sustained operations to protect data center infrastructure across a global footprint.
- Recruit, mentor, and lead a diverse, distributed, and multidisciplinary team of security professionals across multiple timezones.
- Integrate hardware-rooted trust, segmented enclaves, side-channel mitigations, and insider-risk countermeasures tuned for persistent, well-resourced adversaries.
- Drive security design reviews, threat modeling, supply-chain risk assessments, secure provisioning, runtime monitoring, incident response, and structured decommissioning.
- Deeply collaborate with engineering, operations, and security teams to define, implement, enforce, and evolve security best practices.
- Engage with suppliers and partners to evaluate and mitigate risks associated with third-party hardware, firmware, and software dependencies.
- Prepare and deliver executive-level updates on risk posture, compliance, incident status, and program progress.
- Ensure our facilities meet the strictest compliance requirements.
- Continually evolve the security of our data centers alongside advances in cybersecurity controls and adversary activity.
What We're Looking For
- 15+ years of experience in security.
- 10+ years leading large-scale infrastructure or datacenter programs with global scope.
- Proven track record protecting hyperscale, colocation, or hybrid environments against sophisticated adversaries, including insider threats and close-access attacks.
- Demonstrated success recruiting, developing, and retaining multidisciplinary security teams across time zones and cultures.
- Deep knowledge of security design and operations, including host-level hardening, network segmentation, IAM/PAM, secure provisioning, firmware and bare-metal security, and governance frameworks.
- Strong familiarity with control frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2).
- Experience driving compliance in regulated environments.
Team & Environment
You will lead a multidisciplinary security team, managing the intersection of physical, hardware, and digital security for our global data center footprint.
Work Mode
This role follows a hybrid work model, with offices located in San Francisco, Seattle, and New York City.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
